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Your first restaurant, an essential guide : how to plan, research, analyze, finance, open, and operate your own wildly successful eatery

Daniel Boardman · Edith Street Publications
Format:  Print book : English

Offers a solid framework for beginning with what is often a vague idea and proceeding, step by step, to research, plan, evaluate, open, and operate a very successful first restaurant. If you are thinking about, or anywhere in the process of, opening a restaurant, this guide will...
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Downhill from Here: Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality

Katherine S. Newman · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A sharp examination of the looming financial catastrophe of retirement in America.As millions of Baby Boomers reach their golden years, the state of retirement in America is little short of a disaster. Nearly half the households with people aged 55 and older have no retirement savings at all....
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Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together

Gaby Dunn · Atria Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

The beloved writer-comedian expands on her popular podcast with an engaging and empowering financial literacy book for Millennials and Gen Z. In the first episode of her "Bad With Money" podcast, Gaby Dunn asked patrons at a coffee shop two questions: First, what's your favorite...
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21 Secrets of Million-Dollar Sellers: America's Top Earners Reveal the Keys to Sales Success

Stephen J Harvill · Touchstone
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In this sharp, invigorating read, Fortune 50 consultant Stephen Harvill discovers twenty-one common behaviors of top earners across seven major industries that set them apart. These are the secrets of the world's best salespeople who rake in at least one million dollars a year.For over...
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Knock 'em Dead: The Ultimate Job Search Guide

MARTIN YATE · Adams Media
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Completely updated with new material, this bestselling job search guide can help you keep up with changes in the job market - from updating the language of your resume to using social media networking to make professional connections that are essential in finding new employment opportunities.For...
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Stand Out Cover Letters: How to Write Winning Cover Letters That Get You Hired

Mark Baker · Independently published
Pages: 101
Format: Paperback

BOOK DESCRIPTION ***WANT TO KNOW HOW TO GET A JOB IN THE OVERCROWDED JOB MARKET?*** Don't be like everybody else and do what everybody else is doing. Learn how to write cover letters that stand out! Once you know how, you'll be able to write cover letters for jobs you really...
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Thank You for Being Late: Finding a Job, Running a Country, and Keeping Your Head in an Age of Accelerations

Thomas L Friedman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 496
Format: Audiobook

A New York Times Bestseller A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observersWe all sense it -- something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your kids. You can't miss it when you read the newspapers or watch...
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The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Ryan Holiday · Portfolio
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

A beautifully packaged daily devotional of Stoic wisdom, featuring new translations of the most celebrated Stoics with historical context and practical tips from bestselling author Ryan Holiday.Stoic philosophy has long been the secret weapon of history's greatest and wisest leaders--from...
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home

Ilona Bray · Nolo
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Everything a buyer needs to know to buy a first home, with insider tips and advice from the experts! Rental prices have gone through the roof, more homes are coming up for sale, and buying a home remains a sound investment. But how do you know whether you're ready? And what steps should...
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Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business

Rana Foroohar · Crown Business
Pages: 388
Format: Print book

Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of the crisis of 2008 still remain unlearned - and our financial system is just as vulnerable as ever. Many of us know that our government failed to fix the banking system after the subprime mortgage...
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Capturing Loyalty: How to Measure, Generate, and Profit from Highly Satisfied Customers

John A Larson · Praeger
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover

Written by two highly successful business coaches and management consultants, this book explains how to improve profitability by focusing on turning a business's already satisfied customers into highly satisfied customers by removing their sense of risk. The authors also provide a fail-safe...
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Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations That Last

David A Edwards · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Most things we create will not matter. This book is about creating things that do, from a master innovator who brings science and art together in his cutting edge labs.Art and science are famous opposites. Contemporary innovation mostly keeps them far apart. But in this book, David Edwards...
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The Four: Or, How to Build a Trillion-Dollar Company

SCOTT GALLOWAY · Portfolio
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook are four of the most influential entities on the planet. Just about everyone knows how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong. For all that's been written about The Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering...
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The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future

ANDREW YANG · Hachette Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From entrepreneur Andrew Yang, the founder of Venture for America, an eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes-and a rallying cry for the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy. The shift toward...
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